EMN vs. DOW, DD, PPG, FMC, OLN, HUN, LXU, ALB, HXL, and AVNT
Should you be buying Eastman Chemical stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Eastman Chemical include DOW (DOW), DuPont de Nemours (DD), PPG Industries (PPG), FMC (FMC), Olin (OLN), Huntsman (HUN), LSB Industries (LXU), Albemarle (ALB), Hexcel (HXL), and Avient (AVNT).
Eastman Chemical (NYSE:EMN) and DOW (NYSE:DOW) are both large-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, valuation, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
83.7% of Eastman Chemical shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.0% of DOW shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.9% of Eastman Chemical shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of DOW shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Eastman Chemical pays an annual dividend of $3.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. DOW pays an annual dividend of $2.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.9%. Eastman Chemical pays out 41.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. DOW pays out 166.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
In the previous week, Eastman Chemical had 3 more articles in the media than DOW. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Eastman Chemical and 3 mentions for DOW. Eastman Chemical's average media sentiment score of 0.88 beat DOW's score of 0.34 indicating that Eastman Chemical is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Eastman Chemical has a beta of 1.54, meaning that its stock price is 54% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, DOW has a beta of 1.3, meaning that its stock price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500.
DOW received 270 more outperform votes than Eastman Chemical when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.48% of users gave Eastman Chemical an outperform vote while only 59.31% of users gave DOW an outperform vote.
Eastman Chemical has a net margin of 10.16% compared to DOW's net margin of 2.75%. Eastman Chemical's return on equity of 13.84% beat DOW's return on equity.
Eastman Chemical has higher earnings, but lower revenue than DOW. Eastman Chemical is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than DOW, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Eastman Chemical presently has a consensus target price of $106.24, suggesting a potential upside of 4.89%. DOW has a consensus target price of $59.18, suggesting a potential upside of 2.69%. Given Eastman Chemical's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Eastman Chemical is more favorable than DOW.
Summary
Eastman Chemical beats DOW on 16 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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